Gender Equality's Blind Spot: Addressing Discrimination Against Men

Abstract

When someone is treated unfairly or negatively because of their gender, it's not always a sexual offence. This is known as gender discrimination. Gender discrimination hinders people's ability to express and define who they are, which is detrimental. While traditional gender discrimination congruity models (such as role congruity theory and lack of fit) predict unfavourable outcomes for men and women in gender-incongruent domains. It is evident that the majority of feminists constantly debate about how women's rights are violated and perceive women as social victims. Many women abuse the privileges bestowed upon them. falsely misuse the authority granted to them and file false reports against the spouse and his family. At work, men are sexually abused. The belief held by society that men are incapable of abuse is one that they are reluctant to embrace. This article describes how men experience prejudice in a similar way to women do, and how society ignores male victimisation because of the stereotype that only women may be mistreated and harassed by men, not the other way around. Many laws are designed to protect women, but there are none to protect men, which renders them the victims of society. despite the belief held by society that women are disproportionately affected by social inequality. Using this text as a guide, I want to highlight the issues as well as role of judiciary while interpreting different provisions of our legal system.